Description
| Product ID: | 9780141185996 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
| Title: | The Real Life of Sebastian Knight |
| Authors: | Author: Vladimir Nabokov |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Classic fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction (pre c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman ('his slapdash and very misleading book'), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight's life as he understands it. Spurred on by admiration for his novelist half-brother and irritation at the biography written about him by Mr Goodman (''his slapdash and very misleading book''), the narrator, V, sets out to record Sebastian Knight''s life as he understands it. But buried amid the extensive quoting, digressions, seeming explanations and digs, Sebastian''s erratic and troubled persona remains as elusive as ever. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-03-29 |
